This document is deprecated, please see examples in Serialization document.
Kafkaui supports deserializing protobuf messages in two ways:
- Using Confluent Schema Registry's protobuf support.
- Supplying a protobuf file as well as a configuration that maps topic names to protobuf types.
To configure Kafkaui to deserialize protobuf messages using a supplied protobuf schema add the following to the config:
kafka:
clusters:
- # Cluster configuration omitted...
# protobufFilesDir specifies root location for proto files (will be scanned recursively)
# NOTE: if 'protobufFilesDir' specified, then 'protobufFile' and 'protobufFiles' settings will be ignored
protobufFilesDir: "/path/to/my-protobufs"
# (DEPRECATED) protobufFile is the path to the protobuf schema. (deprecated: please use "protobufFiles")
protobufFile: path/to/my.proto
# (DEPRECATED) protobufFiles is the location of one or more protobuf schemas
protobufFiles:
- /path/to/my-protobufs/my.proto
- /path/to/my-protobufs/another.proto
- /path/to/my-protobufs:test/test.proto
# protobufMessageName is the default protobuf type that is used to deserialize
# the message's value if the topic is not found in protobufMessageNameByTopic.
protobufMessageName: my.DefaultValType
# protobufMessageNameByTopic is a mapping of topic names to protobuf types.
# This mapping is required and is used to deserialize the Kafka message's value.
protobufMessageNameByTopic:
topic1: my.Type1
topic2: my.Type2
# protobufMessageNameForKey is the default protobuf type that is used to deserialize
# the message's key if the topic is not found in protobufMessageNameForKeyByTopic.
protobufMessageNameForKey: my.DefaultKeyType
# protobufMessageNameForKeyByTopic is a mapping of topic names to protobuf types.
# This mapping is optional and is used to deserialize the Kafka message's key.
# If a protobuf type is not found for a topic's key, the key is deserialized as a string,
# unless protobufMessageNameForKey is specified.
protobufMessageNameForKeyByTopic:
topic1: my.KeyType1
Same config with flattened config (for docker-compose):
kafka.clusters.0.protobufFiles.0: /path/to/my.proto
kafka.clusters.0.protobufFiles.1: /path/to/another.proto
kafka.clusters.0.protobufMessageName: my.DefaultValType
kafka.clusters.0.protobufMessageNameByTopic.topic1: my.Type1
kafka.clusters.0.protobufMessageNameByTopic.topic2: my.Type2
kafka.clusters.0.protobufMessageNameForKey: my.DefaultKeyType
kafka.clusters.0.protobufMessageNameForKeyByTopic.topic1: my.KeyType1